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Postby Greg B on Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:55 pm

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Three primary colours, three complimentaries

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Postby stubbsy on Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:58 pm

Cherry red, navy blue and dark green fro the first row - just kidding :lol:

Bright red, blue & green - 1st row

yellow, magenta cyan 2nd row.

My monitor is calibrated with ColorPlus ColorVision
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Postby stubbsy on Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:07 pm

The SmugMug calibration print is worth examining too:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/calibration-1200.mg
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Postby PiroStitch on Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:08 pm

Different grey tones as my retinas have been burnt out :wink:

Red, Blue, Green
Yellow, Purple, Aqua/Cyan
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:23 pm

OK Greg - colours are red, blue and green top row. Bottom row yellow, magenta and cyan.

In reality the colours are:

Red 75%M and 75%Y
Blue 87%C and 66%M
Green 58%C and 67%Y
Yellow 75%Y and 6%C
Magenta 21%C and 56%M
Cyan 55%C and 21%Y

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